I normally leave mine set to 88... I use the volume control on the
headphone cable to regulate the volume to my ears. Anything above 92 seems
to cause distortion on louder tracks, 96 on quieter tracks. If I have it
any lower, thaen you cannot hear the music above the background noise when
walking around a busy city centre at lunchtime...

Mark

Binder, David wrote:
| I don't know about any else, but did anyone notice that the volume he used
| to test this was 88? 88????? I have an AJB6000 and if I have the volume
| over 70, it'll fry my ears!! Maybe that has something to do with rockbox
| handling distortion (there gotta be distortion at 88 big time) vs how
| archos handles distortion?
|
| Just a (LOOOOUUUD) thought ;-)
|
| -David
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: André Rübel [mailto:andre.ruebel_at_web.de]
| Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 1:38 AM
| To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
| Subject: Re: Archos firmware sound vs Rockbox
|
|
|
| "Andreas Stemmer" <Andreas.Stemmer_at_web.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| news:000001c31af4$3817eba0$3f149b0a_at_Andi...
||
|| Perhaps the archos firmware does some distortion protection if there are
|| too strong bass and loudness settings. If you use the same volume
|| setting on both firmwares, does rockbox sound louder?
||
| ...
||
|| Perhaps a "scientific" sound test could help: recording the output of
|| both firmwares to do a real a/b compare and some frequency analysis
|| perhaps...
||
|| Andreas Stemmer
|
| You're maybe right, that Archos changes internally settings, but I don't
| think that it is worth to spend much effort in to find out.
| One has to use the right headphones anyway.
| I think that this is not a problem at all (and I did not want to say that
| in my previous post). The rockbox developers should not spend time in this
| issue. It works and sounds wonderful, the way it is.
|
| Many thanks to the rockbox team for all their great work that they are
| doing for all of us.
|
| André